Conference: Agenda
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024
10:00 AM–10:30 AM
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
J. Steven Leeder, PharmD, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
Mark Hoffman, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
10:30 AM – 11:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Harry Caufield, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Finding Harmony Between Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics
11:30 AM–1:00 PM
LUNCH & POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Poster presenters will provide a 30-second overview of their research to the entire group of attendees.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
DATA STRUCTURE & STANDARDS
Moderator: Harlen Hays, MPH, Cardinal Health
Andrea Gaedigk, PhD, MS, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
PharmVar: Defining Pharmacogene Variation
Timothy Haithcoat, PhD, University of Missouri
Chasing Context: What Should We Know, How Can It Be Integrated
Theodore White, PhD, University of Missouri-Kansas City
A Perspective on How Fungal Icd Codes Reflect Clinical Realities
Student: Edward Bird, Kansas State University
BALROG – A Nextflow Pipeline for Metagenomic Surveillance of Antimicrobial-Resistance
PANEL DISCUSSION
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
DATA VISUALIZATION
Moderator: Martina Clarke, PhD, University of Nebraska Omaha
Marc Libault, PhD, University of Missouri
Towards a System-Level Understanding of Soybean-Rhizobia Symbiosis at the Single Cell Level
Sanjiv Bhatia, PhD, University of Missouri – St. Louis
AuPAIr: Automated Precipitation Aware Irrigation
Yugyung Lee, PhD, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Unsupervised Segmentation with SAM and LLMs for Explainable Medical Image Analysis for Cancer and Alzheimer’s Detection
Student: Kun-Yi Chen, University of Missouri
SuGA-DRL: Continuously Blood Pressure Control Algorithm for Ischemic Stroke Patients
PANEL DISCUSSON
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
BREAK
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
SYSTEMS STRATEGIES
Moderator: Dong Pei, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center
Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, Center for Practical Bioethics
AI in Healthcare- Balancing Risk and Opportunity
Elebeoba May, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
System Models of Infection Response in Individuals with Comorbidities
Sanzhen Liu, PhD, Kansas State University
Decoding Genomes of a Wheat Blast Pathogen
Katya Mack, PhD, University of Kansas
Allele-Specific Expression Reveals Genetic Drivers of Tissue Regeneration in Mice
PANEL DISCUSSION
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
CAREER PANEL
Moderator: Emily Haas, BioNexus KC
Joshua Koni, MS, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
Stacy Farr, PhD, MPH, Saint Luke’s Health System
Dana Nayduch, PhD, USDA-ARS
Lee Zuvanich, Adva Digital Solutions
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
NETWORKING & DINNER
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024
7:30 AM–8:00 AM
BREAKFAST
8:00 AM–8:10 AM
WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS
Mark Hoffman, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
8:10 AM – 9:00 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Maia Hightower, MD, Equality AI
Responsible AI in Healthcare: A Practical Approach
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
DATA ANALYSIS / AI
Moderator: Gayla Olbricht, PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Paul de Figueiredo, PhD, Christopher S Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri
Microbial Medicines for Addressing Human Disease
Petruța Caragea, PhD, Iowa State University
F(unctional) ANOVA for Data with Complex Dependence and its Application to Satellite-derived Vegetation Indexes
Amit Noheria, MBBS, SM, University of Kansas Medical Center
AI interpretation of ECGs
Student: Elissa Zakharia, University of Kansas Medical Center
Insights for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Prediction using Machine Learning
PANEL DISCUSSION
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
BREAK
10:30 AM–11:30 AM
IMAGE ANALYSIS
Moderator: Irina Pushel, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
Joe Shaffer, PhD, Kansas City University
Improving Interpretability Using Randomized Input Sampling (Rise)
Jiwoong Choi, PhD, University of Kansas School of Medicine
What Happens in Your Lungs: Quantitative CT, Computational Physics, and Machine Learning
Raj Logan, PhD, Wichita State University
Cell and Tissue Live Imaging: Challenges and Opportunities
Student: Luciana Castellano, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Codon-Dependent Regulation of Gene Expression During Dengue Virus Infection
PANEL DISCUSSION
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
DATA APPLICATION
Moderator: Sharlee Climer, PhD, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Mark Clements, MD, PhD, Children’s Mercy
The Rising T1DE Alliance: A Transformational Initiative to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Care
Scott Swain, PhD, Cardinal Health
The Strategic Role of Real-World Data in Medicine
Joel Burken, PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Talking to the Trees – Phytoforensics & Human Pollutant Exposure!
Justin Hutchison, PhD, University of Kansas
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Measurements Normalized Using Biomarkers
PANEL DISCUSSION